Digital BW, The Print

"I've never seen a perfect system, but the CM approaches are better 
than my
custom curves."
Just to add a note to Paul's point, I had my 4800 color profile made 
for me by Ethan Hanson at Dry Creek. In addition to the beautiful color 
profile he created (including a nice gamut chart of your paper/printer)
for Ilford Sm Pearl, he gave me a group of B&W profiles to try drawn 
from the same data set. These profiles covered Neutral, Platinum, 
Selenium, Cool tone, Sepia and Brown tone. All I can say is WOW! Dead 
on WYSIWYG and the various tones are STUNNING! The Platinum tone is 
especially delicate and beautiful. I know some will always want to 
fiddle with in between values in ABW, but for me this is printing 
Nirvana. 
Lou Meluso
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